Oct 28, 2025
🎬 Barbara Pepper was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. At age 16 she started life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met Lucille Ball, with whom she would remain friends.
From 1937 to 1943, Pepper was a prolific actress, appearing in 43 movies, mostly in supporting roles or in minor films, with exceptions being main characters in The Rogues' Tavern and Mummy's Boys, both feature films released in 1936. She is best known as the first Doris Ziffel on the sitcom Green Acres.
